Since the New Deal, Republicans have been on the wrong side of every issue of concern
to ordinary Americans; Social Security, the war in Vietnam, equal rights,
civil liberties, church- state separation, consumer issues, public education, reproductive
freedom, national health care, labor issues, gun policy, campaign-finance
reform, the environment
and tax fairness. No political party could
remain so consistently wrong by accident.
The only rational conclusion is
that, despite their cynical "family values" propaganda, the Republican Party
is a criminal conspiracy to betray the interests of the American people
in
favor of plutocratic and corporate interests, and absolutist religious groups.

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A tight Democratic primary race where nobody clinches the nomination early will delay
the implementation of our campaign strategy -- we won't know who to smear.

At the root, grouse media hosts are expert liars -- lying through omission and oversimplification.
Is it just a coincidence that virtually all grouse media
explicitly serves the GOP political agenda? Not likely.

In
this political/economic environment, it's easy for the moderately bright but ethically
deficient to make a gen-
erous living advocating for the interests
of the wealthy. Just look to the success of right-wing hacks like Ann Coulter,
Laura Ingram, David Horowitz, et al. All they have to do is articulate
political positions that aid the GOP and their wealthy patrons -- such as arguing
against obviously beneficial policies like universal single-payer health
care, public education and Social Security -- which can only be financed by
progressive taxation on the rich.

GOP flacks must be clever enough
(except the "useful idiots" who actually believe the propaganda) to spin
an argument that good is bad and bad is good -- and immoral enough to knowingly
screw the vast majority of their fellow citizens.

It shouldn't come
as a surprise that there are lucrative employment opportunities and political
patronage galore for anyone willing to tout for the nobles -- but not much
for those representing the interests of the bottom 95%.

As we've
noted here at evilGOPbastards, the Republican Party's first and only governing
principle is the protection of the wealth and privilege of America's hereditary
aris-
tocracy. Gun laws, abortion, prayer in schools, affirmative action
-- all those issues just preserve the electoral demo-
graphics required to
maintain the GOP's lock on political power in order to serve the interests of
the richest 5% of the population.

In 2000, 50% of the electorate voted
either Democrat or Green, yet there are few left-wing ideologues to be found
on commercial airwaves. This should prove that the pre- valence of right-wing
political propaganda in the media can't possibly be due to market forces
alone.

Even more alarming, there seems to be a pattern devel- oping
of cash subsidies to "independent" journalists. Recent revelations about
George Will's $25,000 per diem from media baron Conrad Black and Howard Kurtz's
wife's lucrative GOP consulting contracts may be the tip of a very disturbing
ethical iceberg.

How many other "journalists" are on the GOP
payroll directly or indirectly?

As egregious as this seems,
press corruption has to be considered as an explanation for the savaging Al Gore
received during the 2000 elections, while George W. Bush got -- and continues
to get -- a free "see no evil" pass from our so-called media watchdogs. Mere stupidity
can't explain it.

We can only hope that someday soon, brave
journalists
in the tradition of Edward R. Murrow will jeopardize their careers
but serve their nation by at long last publicly proclaiming the truth that
the emperor has no clothes, and that the GOP has been shamelessly screwing the
vast majority of the American people for years.

"Grouse media" and the GOP propaganda machineIn the 2000 presidential election,
Al Gore's popular vote tally was quite remarkable
-- remarkable in that thousands of radio stations coast-to-coast did nothing
but broadcast Republican Party talking points day-in and day-out, 24/7.
This "unfair and imbalanced" media onslaught continues to this day.

There
is no liberal counterbalance
in the "objective" press, i.e.,
media that does not explicitly advocate
for a political ideology. For the
most part, major corporate media's prime duty is only to their bottom line --
even though that bottom line can
be in conflict with the interests of a majority
of their readers/listeners/
viewers (such as the media black-
out
on pending FCC rule changes permitting greater corporate consolidation).

Big media naturally becomes aligned with the Republican Party, which is slavishly
devoted to corp-
orate and other big-money intere-
sts. As if major
media's financial interests weren't enough of a deterrent for truly objective news
and opinion, the big-media pundit-
ocracy has become part of the economic
elite that the GOP so faithfully serves. Can there be any confusion as
to why there is no explicit advocacy for the interests
of the middle and
lower classes?

While there is no major-media advocacy for the
interests of the vast majority of the American people, there is a surfeit, glut
and overabundance of opinion and "news" supporting the interests
of the
rich and powerful -- taking
the form of overt GOP propaganda. Propaganda
is the only word to accurately describe the "Demo-
crats bad / Republicans
good" mantra repeated ad nauseum on thousands of AM radio stations
and
increasingly on more and
more cable TV "news" shows.

Imagine
if there were a network
of a thousand AM radio stations broadcasting
left-wing ideology
and propaganda -- or indeed, TV networks broadcasting
"news" shows that only denigratedRepub-
licans and praised Democrats. Would theRepublicans be able to maintain their stranglehold on all three branches of our federal
government? They'd be lucky to survive as a viable political party
-- and that's the point. Liberals are facing an overwhelming tsunami
of
right-wing propaganda, the quan-
tity and volume are enough to drown-out
any attempt at rational discourse.

Consider the upcoming 2004 presidential
election. That GeorgeW. Bush has presided over a net loss in job numbers (comparable only to Herbert Hoover
in the Great Depression); that he lied us into an unnecessary war in Iraq
that has cost over 500 American lives, maimed thousands more and has expended
hundreds of billions of dollars while diverting military and intelligence assets
from the war against Al Qaeda; that he has enacted ruinous tax cuts for the
rich
that have transformed a healthy surplus into a crippling deficit; that
he has enacted environmental policies that will increase air and water pollution;
and that extra-
constitutional means were utilized to seize power
so that all these disastrous policies could be enacted. In light of those
disastrous policies, how can this guy even be considered a viable candidate
for reelection?

The only explanation is the success of the GOP
propaganda machine, coupled with a compliant press that has been too stupid
to notice what the hell is going on, or bought off -- paid to look the other way
while these guys are wrecking military, economic, environmental and diplomatic
havoc.

How does GOP propaganda machine succeed? There are two major factors. First
is the "grouse" factor. Right-wing propaganda shows like Limbaugh, Hannity,
Scarborough, etc., need a foil to focus their listeners/viewers' anger and
outrage. Naturally, the object for anger and outrage will always
be Democrats
and liberals. For this tactic to work, complicated issues must be grossly
oversimplified to the point of dishonesty. Critical elements of a particular argument
must be omitted for the host to present his outrage du jour in terms of
black-white and good-bad, in a world where reality is painted in shades of gray
and relative good-
ness and badness need to be balanced.
Second, successful propaganda requires that the ignorant be flattered for their
innate "common sense," while the knowledgeable are discredited for their elite
intellectualism. Between grousetactics and the flattery strategy poor, blue-collar working stiffs can be convinced
that labor unions are bad, that national health care is "socialized medicine,"
that the "death tax" is an unconscionable burden, and that progressive taxation
on the wealthy is "class warfare."